Month: July 2025

Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear (D) sharply criticized the administration’s sweeping tariffs, saying the policy approach amounts to “chaos” and is bad for the U.S. economy. “No, not at all,” Beshear said in an interview on NBC News’s “Meet the Press,” when asked whether the people of Kentucky voted for this tariff agenda. “This is, what…
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The “big, beautiful bill” recently signed into law enacted a number of tax, spending and regulatory measures. President Trump and his supporters regard the new law as a triumph. Trump’s enemies not so much. NASA spending measures are tucked inside the bill that can best be described as ugly, or at the very least ill-advised.…
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Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) on Sunday said he has confidence in Attorney General Pam Bondi despite reports that she is feuding with FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino over her handling of the case related to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. “I do,” Barrasso said, when asked in an interview on NBC…
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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem defended the conditions at the “Alligator Alcatraz” facility in Florida after Democrats made claims of “inhumane” treatment of the detained migrants. In an interview on NBC News’s “Meet the Press,” moderator Kristen Welker asked Noem about claims from Democrats that, in the facility, more than 30 people are “stuffed into…
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U.S. trade partners have faced months of uncertainty and on-and-off threats from Trump to impose tariffs, with deadlines sometimes extended or changed.

(NEXSTAR) — The United States Postal Service has, again, raised prices on first-class mail, marking just the latest cost increase in recent years. Back in April, the U.S. Postal Service requested a price increase in order to help it achieve financial stability — the same reasoning it has used for previous rate hikes. The increase,…
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Tech billionaire Elon Musk blasted President Trump on Saturday over his defense of Attorney General Pam Bondi and her handling of the case related to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. Musk, in a post on the social platform X late Saturday, responded to another X user, who screenshotted Trump’s Truth Social statement earlier that day and…
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The Justice Department moved to dismiss charges against a Utah plastic doctor charged in connection with a COVID-19 fraud scheme, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced on Saturday. Michael Kirk Moore Jr. and three of his associates were indicted by a federal grand jury in January 2023 and accused of discarding more than $28,000 worth of…
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White House senior trade adviser Peter Navarro touted “Trumpnomics” in a recent interview during a rant against Jerome Powell, slamming the Federal Reserve chair as a “pure partisan” actor who, in his view, is holding back the economy.  “So, here’s the deal. It’s like in the first term, when President Trump was in, Powell gets…
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Threats against public officials have persisted in the year since the first assassination attempt of President Trump, as experts in political violence warn the upward trend shows no sign of fizzling out.  The failed attack — one of two attempts on Trump’s life as he sought a second term in the White House — yielded…
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When a firework boomed in the distance as President Trump addressed supporters in Iowa earlier this month, the popping sound triggered something in the president’s mind. “It’s only fireworks, I hope. Famous last words,” Trump quipped, a nod to when he was on stage a year ago in Pennsylvania and gunshots rang out, with a…
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President Trump claimed during an interview on Saturday that some Democrats in Congress “wanted to vote” for his “big, beautiful bill,” which was signed into law last week.  “And remember this, the Democrats wanted to vote for it, most of them, many of them, because it’s all good stuff,” the president said during his appearance…
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Attorney General Pam Bondi reportedly fired several Department of Justice (DOJ) employees this week with ties to former special counsel Jack Smith, who probed President Trump’s handling of classified documents and efforts to overturn the 2020 election, according to reports by several outlets, including the Associated Press. At least nine DOJ workers were terminated by…
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President Trump stood in defense of Attorney General Pam Bondi on Saturday evening, praising her for doing a “FANTASTIC” job as she faces intense scrutiny from some of the president’s supporters over her handling of files related to disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.  “What’s going on with my ‘boys’ and, in some…
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President Trump stood in defense of Attorney General Pam Bondi on Saturday evening, praising her for doing a “FANTASTIC” job as she faces intense scrutiny from some of the president’s supporters over her handling of files related to disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.  “What’s going on with my ‘boys’ and, in some…
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A White House spokesperson shot back that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez should “get some serious help for her obvious and severe case of Trump Derangement Syndrome.”

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang dismissed concerns over President Trump’s tariff agenda, saying the California-based company will “work through it” and emphasized that the U.S. needs to bolster its production of chips.  “Nobody likes disruptions and no one likes abrupt changes, but these settlements will — President Trump will settle these deals and countries will reorganize…
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Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) said during a recent interview that the government failed “at every level” in preparation and response to the deadly flooding in Texas that has killed more than 120 people.  “There are families across the state in tears today, suffering so much loss, and this was totally unnecessary to have this big…
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The president was asked Friday about the upcoming anniversary of last year’s shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania, where a bullet grazed his ear.

Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil said during a recent appearance on CNN that President Trump’s administration wanted use him as “an example” after he was detained for over three months. “It‘s absurd. It‘s basically to intimidate me. They want to conflate any speech for the right of Palestinians with a speech that‘s supporting terrorism, which is…
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A federal judge in Texas reversed a Biden-era rule on Friday that permitted medical debt to be wiped from credit reports, according to court documents. U.S. District Judge Sean Jordan, a 2019 appointee of President Trump, said the rule by the previous administration exceeds the authority of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The CFPB, an…
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A reporter from CBS News Texas asked the president Friday if more lives could’ve been saved if emergency alerts were issued earlier.

Senate Republicans remain wary of eliminating the popular and successful global HIV/AIDS program PEPFAR, as they face down a July 18 deadline to vote on President Trump’s first tranche of rescissions requests.  In his rescissions request to Congress last month, Trump asked that $900 million budgeted for the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)…
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The California governor also made a request of the Trump administration while blasting its approach to immigration enforcement.

President Trump on Saturday lashed out against comedian Rosie O’Donnell, calling her a “threat to humanity” and noting that he is “seriously considering” revoking her citizenship. “Because of the fact that Rosie O’Donnell is not in the best interests of our Great Country, I am giving serious consideration to taking away her Citizenship,” Trump wrote…
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